Senior Marketing Manager
Location: US, CA, San Francisco
Department: Marketing
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Marketing

Company profile:
Vend is looking for some awesome new talent to come join us. You'll be working in an awesome team doing awesome things, and generally being awesome.Learn about us on our blog, or meet the team on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedInAwesome SpaceOur brand new Auckland office space is located on Nuffield Street in Newmarket, surrounded by our customers and the industry we love. It is huge, open, and shiny new with great meeting room spaces, casual working environments and plenty of space to host awesome events. We don't do cubicles, just plenty of space, whiteboards and meetings rooms. We also have a great cafe/retail space with our very own Front of House Manager taking care of our visitors and fellow Venders. Like Auckland our Melbourne office is surrounded by retail. It's a great wee space equipped with tiny houses and some awesome cardboard cutout animals.Our Toronto office is located right in the heart of downtown retail district. Like Melbourne and Auckland there's a great vibe with great coffee, boutique stores and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Our SoMa office in San Francisco is located in the middle of the SF tech scene, just a (Biz) stone's throw from Twitter.The EnvironmentWe want you to be at the top of your game. You can wear whatever clothing you like, start work late in the morning, take breaks whenever you want and generally work the way you want to work. Who we're looking forVend is looking for people to push the boundaries. We are a hard working professional team with a wicked sense of humour, and we are looking for people who thrive in a collaborative open environment. We want passionate, hard working, talented individuals that want to lead in their field.

Job description:
Opportunities like this don’t come by very often. And we’re not just saying that either! Imagine managing all of the marketing efforts in the U.S. for a fast paced, high growth and successful global start-up/rocketship like Vend!If you don’t know already, Vend was founded in New Zealand in 2010 and is an award winning, venture backed, cloud-based point of sale platform for retail.  We’re chucking out crusty old cash registers and replacing them with iPads, touch screens and beautiful software.  We’re shaking things up and pushing out innovations, creating huge demand for our SaaS solution all over the world. We love small business retail and the technologies that empower local retailers to compete with the big chains and restore delight to the neighborhood shopping experience.  Accordingly, we immerse ourselves in these worlds in our New Zealand headquarters and in all of our international offices, including Melbourne, Toronto and San Francisco.We’re looking for someone who can take ownership of all of our Marketing efforts in the U.S. and help us blast open our fastest growing and largest market. If you’re this person, you’ll be taking an already high performing strategy, putting your spin on it (because you know how the U.S. market rolls) and executing to perfection, with the goal of continuing to build our awesome brand and business on that side of the world.You’ll be managing the relationship with our PR company and you’ll flourish as a thought leader for the SMB retail, mobile payments, e-commerce and cloud computing industries, because we’re at the intersection of all of these. In this regard, you’ll be a major contributor to our content marketing program, including developing creative stories from our vast store of retail data. You’ll be coordinating and attending events and user groups on Vend’s behalf and you’ll be directing go-to-market campaigns with our strategic partners.  You’ll also market our software and APIs as a retail platform and nurture a thriving developer ecosystem that’s building powerful add-ons to Vend.  As we build our reseller channel of certified Vend experts in the U.S., you’ll also be responsible for all channel marketing and sales enablement.

Requirements:
Between 4 - 6 years experience in a marketing role with similar responsibilities to this roleA strong understanding of the retail industry, SaaS and transformative  technologies like VendExperience managing external agencies (PR, Advertising) and ensuring ROIExperience managing events, from research to execution, achieving an ROI on budgetExperience in Strategic Partnerships and Developer relationsReseller channel marketing experienceMarketing automation experience (sales onboarding, lead nurturing and email marketing)Writing or journalism experience, with video content production experience a plusBuild wonderful relationships with other Venders who will be working with you on design,  content, events, sponsorships, sales, business development and product related “stuff”.Ability to manage complex projects and multi-task with excellent organization skills.Comfort with a fast-paced environment and changing requirements.Ability to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty and ambiguity.A sense of humor. Seriously.

Benefits:
What can you expect from us?We have an open culture where we openly share our results and where your input is truly valued.We work hard but also have a lot of fun while we’re at it!Work-life balance.  We know you have a life outside of work and at Vend you can have a life inside work too.Utilise all your talents.  Not just the ones written in your job description.We welcome all of you at work.  We don’t want you to leave your personality at the door.If you’re interested in joining one of New Zealand’s (okay, the worlds) most exciting companies, Best Workplaces and obviously the most fun and hard working environments around, we’d love to hear from you.Get in touch, apply now, hit that button, get it done and come have a chat with us. We can’t wait to hear from you!